Me. That would be me. Where you give the child time and space to really grok the experience, allowing them to explore and understand and have new thoughts.Multisensory, not always a predictable path.Where grading and measuring them against the norm is an afterthought.Where not every learning experience matches your LO and SC.

We camouflage ourselves a lot, and are good at riding the waves of new initiatives for a surprising amount of time. Children tend to remember many of our lessons years later with enjoyment.I am a hippy, lefty teacher. However, not trendy ATM. But I believe that what I teach has value, and that's enough.

I know where they are. They are sat at home on a lovely Saturday afternoon catching up on their marking and planning. Ignoring their own dc. or catching up with mn in my case because I am recovering from a visit from the big O

Oops. My mistake. I thought you meant bloody hardworking, committed teachers who are trying everything to help the pupils in their care. Trendy, leftish, hippy?

A very conveniently timed attack on the profession just before a NUT strike day.

Teaching based on decades of research.Teaching based on decades of experience from generations of teachers.Teaching which attends to the diffferent ways children can learn.Teaching which is child-centred.Teaching which is open, honest, non-regimented.Teaching which encourages exploration, debate, discussion.

Or a more regimental Grove top down approach which disregards much, if not all of the above.

I am so confused. They have been pushing child-centred learning for ages! Don't tell me they are going to backtrack again and we will have to reinvent bloody everything for the millionth time! I wish they would stop looking for this universal single way to teach that we have to then apply to all of our lessons regardless of subject or type of student and just trust our professional judgement to do our job effectively without this constant hoop-jumping!

Even better why do professional educators have to abide by the totally unqualified opinions of a bunch of very narrow minded politicians who don't even KNOW what they don't know about the science of learning?

Why can't we base state education on the best that evidence based practice and genuine academic research has to offer instead? Noone would allow a politician to man the controls of a nuclear power station, but we unthinkingly allow them to dictate the outcomes of our children.

Be honest - would you trust Gove to mind your toddler alone for a weekend? Labour and it's nanny state over parental choices for all did no better either.

I heard Wilshaw on the Today programme complaining that the thing that upset him about the DfE briefing against him was that they'd called him 'child centred'. Now I am a lefty, but honestly if you are involved in education surely it is exactly what you should be?